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The same calls ranked by premium as a percent of strike

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-11-07, from Stocks With the Highest Option Premiums.

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The same calls ranked by premium as a percent of strike — 12 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symbolpremium_pct_of_strikeiv_pctunderlying_price
SOXL19.98167.645.84
HOOD8.2567.380.78
NVDA6.5553188.04
UAL6.2950.6112.75
SOFI6.1252.216.19
TSLA6.0551.1359.21
IBIT4.938.742.87
AMZN4.5737.2259.88
NVO3.8933.540.31
QQQ3.6129.3656.89
IWM2.9722.9273.69
GLD2.5621.8373.28
Rows × columns
12 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for The same calls ranked by premium as a percent of strike, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
symbol text 12 distinct values (AMZN, GLD, HOOD…)
premium_pct_of_strike number 2.56 to 19.98 percent
iv_pct number 21.8 to 167.6 percent
underlying_price number 16.19 to 656.89 US dollars

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    underlying_symbol                                                       AS symbol,
    round(100 * avg(toFloat64(option_close) / toFloat64(strike_price)), 2)  AS premium_pct_of_strike,
    round(100 * avg(implied_volatility), 1)                                 AS iv_pct,
    round(toFloat64(any(underlying_close)), 2)                              AS underlying_price
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.options_greeks WHERE date >= today() - 30)
  AND option_type IN ('call', 'C')
  AND iv_converged = 1
  AND volume > 0
  AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 25 AND 35
  AND toFloat64(underlying_close) >= 5
  AND abs(toFloat64(strike_price) / toFloat64(underlying_close) - 1) < 0.025
  AND underlying_symbol NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY underlying_symbol
HAVING sum(volume) >= 1000 AND count() >= 3
ORDER BY premium_pct_of_strike DESC
LIMIT 12
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